History VideoGame / Hatfall

* NiceHat: It's about 'em, you catch 'em, and you even [[WeirdCurrency spend]] 'em to help you catch more of them.

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* NiceHat: [[CaptainObvious Why yes.]] It's about 'em, you catch 'em, and you even [[WeirdCurrency spend]] 'em to help you catch more of them.

* AwesomeMusic: [[https://soundcloud.com/networkmusicensemble/this-gun-for-hire This Gun For Hire by the Sexy Swingin' Sisters]] is the music that plays during the entire time playing

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: While played for laughs in the dating simulator minigame you are given three options Ask Hat-Chan on a date [[spoiler: if that option is chosen the player is given fifteen hats as compensation after Hat-Chan was motion sick at the funfair.]], Insult Hat-Chan [[spoiler: if she is insulted enough she will walk away and you are given the option to murder her and her entire family for thirty seven hats]] and [[RapeIsaSpecialKindofEvil Violate Hat-Chan immediately]] [[spoiler: if that option is chosen it reveals that the character is wearing her as a hat with the message [[YouBastard "as I thought you would"]] then giving the player only one hat.]]

* ForGreatJustice: Played for laughs. (I think.) The game's internal name is "Catch hats for great justice!"

** Unlocking survival mode will cause a hunger and thirst meter to appear and go up with every stage you play, until you're forced to play a hunting mini-game, [[spoiler:only for it to take an unexpected direction when you shoot a bear in a suit and are forced to take control of his company...]]

*** And ''then'', [[spoiler:we cut to the narration sprawl from the start, which now has Yahtzee (at his desk) and a hat floating around. The goal here is to maneuver Yahtzee so that the hat "lands" on his head; or, in other words, it's [[RecycledINSPACE "Hatfall" IN ZERO-G]]]].

* StylisticSuck: The walk cycles are intentionally jerky, mirroring ''Zero Punctuation'''s lack of animation.

!!INCOMING TROPEFALL
!!GET IN POSITION:

-->'''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH / WHAT DID YOU DO''' \\

-->'''WHICH ONE IS YOU? THAT IS THE GAME''' \\

* SchmuckBait: "*Don't* catch the hat / That will show me."

'''YOUR BEST'''\\
'''ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH'''

'''YOUR BEST'''

!!Tropes which ''Hatfall'' provides an example of:
* ArtificialStupidity: '''''[[SubvertedTrope Nope]].''''' Players who think they can find themselves in the group of other AI (see [[OnlySixFaces Only Six Faces]]) by [[ArtificialStupidity either standing still (to make them move while you don't) or move in one direction]] will find out that [[ArtificialBrilliance the AI counteracts those tactics]] by either ''waiting'' for you to move for the latter, and moving in-sync (and sometimes '''in the other direction''' as well) with you for the latter.

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* CreatorThumbprint: The out-of-the-blue [[spoiler: Eldritch Abomination]] makes slightly more sense when you remember this game was designed by the same guy who made VideoGame/ChzoMythos and VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Rondo Hat-Ton, Lord of Hats.]]

** Unlocking survival mode will cause a hunger and thirst meter to appear and go up with every stage you play, until you're forced to play a hunting mini-game, [[spoiler:only for it to take an unexpected direction when you shoot a bear in a suit and are forced to take control of his company..]].

* ExcusePlot: The seemingly-epic "Hat-Story" is pretty much entirely a farce, with the only relevant bit is the last paragraph. It's also a StarWars parody.

** Hat-Sassin's Creed (the AssassinsCreed [[TakeThat knockoff]]) will cause the game to [[spoiler:"crash", and instead reload as a VisualNovel parody. With a hat with anime girl eyes as your "girlfriend"]].

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: [[spoiler:The Japanese Title of the Dating Sim is not only correctly translated from the English in the subtitle, All of the Kanji are correct, even of <i>subarashii</i> which doesn't strictly speaking need Kanji]]